Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. The Clinical Trial Liaison manages investigator engagement, site-level clinical trial strategy, enrollment, risk planning, and data delivery. The role also supports cross-functional collaboration, vendor oversight, investigator relationships, and post-marketing safety studies where applicable.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for the full spectrum of investigator engagement from identification and qualification through enrollment, and support database lock, and study closeout
- Serve as a clinical trial scientific ambassador, ensuring investigators deeply understand protocol intent, scientific rationale, and patient eligibility requirements
- Develop and sustain strategic, high-trust relationships with investigators that span trials and therapeutic areas
- Influence enrollment by co-creating tailored recruitment strategies aligned with site capabilities, patient population realities, and study objectives
- Proactively find opportunities to reach new patients, accelerate enrollment and increase impact at priority sites, including for example, novel site models, community-based research initiatives etc
- Capture and elevate critical insights from sites to optimize feasibility, protocol design, and study conduct
- Lead site-level strategy and risk planning to ensure strong and predictable enrollment and data delivery
- Leverage performance metrics to anticipate issues, intervene decisively, and maintain momentum toward clinical milestones
- Drive inspection readiness as a continuous discipline across sites
- Collaborate across functions and with vendor partners to resolve operational barriers, ensuring delivery with speed and quality
- Maintain advanced understanding of local treatment paradigms and standard of care to influence strategic country/site selection and protocol localization
- Provide oversight and quality assurance for vendor monitoring, escalating risks proactively
- Where applicable, lead end-to-end management of Post-Marketing Safety Studies in compliance with local regulations
- Cultivate a portfolio of strategically aligned, high-impact investigators who consistently prioritize client trials
- Enable an exceptional investigator experience by being a responsive, knowledgeable, and valued scientific partner
- Collaborate cross-functionally (e.g., Medical, Clinical, Study Delivery) to align on trial and site priorities, troubleshooting challenges with urgency and creativity
- Conduct data-informed site prospecting and prioritization, contributing to trial competitiveness and regional strategic execution
- Maintain scientific fluency and therapeutic expertise to lead meaningful, solutions-focused discussions with site personnel
- Act as a key liaison between field teams, vendors, and investigators, ensuring alignment, shared purpose, and continuous knowledge transfer
- Partner closely with field team colleagues to elevate the investigator and site experience, ensuring seamless collaboration and improving enrollment outcomes and Investigator relationships
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Strong preference for scientific, clinical, or health-related fields
- • Minimum 5 years of experience in clinical research or pharmaceutical industry with experience directly interacting with or working with HCPs and clinical sites
- • Open to up to 60-80% travel during peak times (travel will vary)
- • Oncology experience required (Breast/Gyn experience preferred)
- • Location: Mid-Atlantic, Southeast Region
Benefits
- Various annual leave entitlements
- A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
- Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
- Life assurance
- Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.
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